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- Cinchona - n. - A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.
- Cinchona - n. - The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.
- Cinchonaceous - a. - Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.
- Cinchonidine - n. - One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.
- Aricine - n. - An alkaloid, first found in white cinchona bark.
- Quinic - a. - Pertaining to, derived from, or connected with, quinine and related compounds; specifically, designating a nonnitrogenous acid obtained from cinchona bark, coffee, beans, etc., as a white crystalline substance.
- Calisaya bark - - A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the Cinchona Calisaya, and other closely related species.
- Cortex - n. - Bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark.
- Quinovin - n. - An amorphous bitter glucoside derived from cinchona and other barks. Called also quinova bitter, and quinova.
- Quinoidine - n. - A brownish resinous substance obtained as a by-product in the treatment of cinchona bark. It consists of a mixture of several alkaloids.
- Quinine - n. - An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc.
- Cinchona - n. - The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.
- Quinovic - a. - Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline acid obtained from some varieties of cinchona bark.